COORDINATING METADATA

• US 20160352797A1
• Filed: 06/01/2015
• Published: 12/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Britten, Kevin M., Appel, Neil, Marusich, Daniel E., Robbin, Gregory S., Krevet, Oliver
• Granted Patent: US 10,462,236 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/765 intermediate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for coordinating metadata for media streaming content and for sending global metadata to client devices that can be used to request supplemental metadata specific to a media consumption experience.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a media streaming source configured to stream a plurality of media items;

a metadata coordination engine configured to receive data, from the media streaming source, identifying a media item streaming from the media streaming source, and to transmit metadata corresponding to the streaming media item; and

an encoder configured to;

receive the stream from the media streaming source, and to receive the metadata corresponding to the streaming media item,

encode a stream including the streaming media item and the metadata corresponding to the streaming media item, and

send the secure stream to two or more client devices.

2. The system of claim 1 comprising:

a metadata database, the metadata database configured to provide global metadata for the media item currently streaming to the metadata coordination engine.

3. The system of claim 2, comprising:

the client devices configured to receive the secure stream, and to extract a subset of the global metadata, the subset of the global metadata being specific to a consumption experience associated with the client device.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the consumption experience includes a geographic location of the client device.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the client device is configured to request supplemental data specific to the consumption experience.

6. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving data from a media-streaming source that identifies a media item being streamed;

retrieving metadata corresponding to the media item being streamed; and

transmitting, to an encoder, the metadata corresponding to the media item being streamed for being encoded into a stream that includes the media item being streamed and the metadata corresponding to the media item being streamed.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein retrieving metadata corresponding to the media item being streamed further comprises sending a request for the metadata corresponding to the media item being streamed to an external metadata database.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, further comprising:

receiving, from the metadata database, global metadata for the media item being streamed.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the global metadata includes one or more subset of the global metadata that is specific to a consumption experience associated with a client device.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the consumption experience includes a geographic location of the client device.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein, wherein the client device is configured to request supplemental data specific to the consumption experience.

12. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, in a client device, a media stream encoded with media data and global metadata describing the media data, wherein the global metadata includes one or more subset of the global metadata that is specific to one or more particular consumption experiences;

determining a particular media consumption experience for the client device;

transmitting data describing the particular media consumption experience to a metadata database along with a request for supplemental data specific to the consumption experience;

receiving, from the metadata database, the supplemental data;

outputting the media; and

displaying the supplemental data.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising:

transmitting the data describing the particular media consumption experience to a consumption event system configured to provide reporting data describing the consumption experience.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, wherein the data describing the particular media consumption experience comprises a geographic location identifier for a media store associated with the client device.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, wherein the data describing the particular media consumption experience comprises a demographic associated with the client device.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, wherein the data describing the particular media consumption experience comprises a description of a percent of a media item in the media stream was skipped.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, wherein the data describing the particular media consumption experience comprises a description of a percent of a media item in the media stream was played.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, wherein the data describing the particular media consumption experience comprises a description that a media item in the media stream was played to completion.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, wherein the data describing the particular media consumption experience comprises a description that a media item in the media stream was marked as being liked by a user of the client device.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method comprising:

receiving data from a media-streaming source that identifies a media item being streamed;

sending, to an external metadata database, a request for metadata corresponding to the media item being streamed;

receiving, from the external metadata database, global metadata corresponding to the media item being streamed in response, wherein the global metadata includes one or more subset of the global metadata that is specific to a consumption experience associated with a client device; and

transmitting, to an encoder, the global metadata corresponding to the media item being streamed for being encoded into a secure stream that includes the media item being streamed and the global metadata corresponding to the media item being streamed.